# Dalkeith Old Peoples Welfare Committee

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC014185
- **Status:** Active
- **Legal form:** Unincorporated association
- **Registered:** July 5, 1962
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC014185


## Contact

- **Address:** 28 Cowden Park, Dalkeith, Midlothian
- **Postcode:** EH22 2HF



## Activities

**Activities:** &#x27;It carries out activities or services itself&#x27;

**Purposes:** &#x27;the advancement of health&#x27;,&#x27;the advancement of citizenship or community development&#x27;

**What the charity does:** to deal with isolation among our members by providing activities where they all come together      Many members either have no family or their family lives away    We provide  outings and social events were their can enjoy themselves   there is also bingo,craft and kurling sessions on a weekly basis

**Objectives:** (1) To promote and assist the general good of all old people in the Burgh of Dalkeith by assisting the work of statutory authorities and voluntary organisations engaged in providing facilities for physical and mental recreation, developing physical improvement, furthering health, relieving poverty, distress or sickness or in pursuing any objects which now are or hereafter may be deemed by law to be charitable, (2) To promote and organise co-operation in the achievement of the above  purposes and to that end bring together in Council representatives of the authorities and organisations engaged in the furtherance of the above purposes or any of them within the Burgh of Dalkeith, (3) To assist any other charitable body or bodies financially or otherwise in the furtherance of the above purposes or any of them, (4) To promote and carry out, or assist in promoting and carrying out surveys relating to the needs of old people and arrange for forwarding to the proper authorities and organisations the relevant facts regarding such cases and causes of distress as are within the power of those authorities and organisations to alleviate, (5) To arrange and provide for or join in arranging and providing for the holding of exhibitions, meetings, lectures and classes in furtherance of&#x27; the objects of the Committee or any of them.





## Areas of operation

- **Main operating location:** Midlothian
- **Geographical spread:** Wider, but within one local authority area






